“Thursday’s Child has Far to Go”.
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Happy Birthday to one noted ODDman. You can drive all you want, but you still end up with a birthday in Can-tuck-ee. Let’s see if we can’t find you nice Sin Zin or perhaps a Big Ass Cab - for medicinal purposes only of course.
Jonathan Adams (Rocky Horror’s Dr. Everett Scott) left the stage recently. He originally started out as the Narrator for the show, but by the time filming for the movie started he had graduated to the larger role of Dr. Everett Scott. Rocky Horror and its pelvic thrusts was not his only work of course as we note he played a lead role in a British production called ‘Tomfoolery’, at least “…until the nightly gyrations of “The Masochism Tango” did for him and he had to leave the cast to have a hernia operation.” ‘Tomfoolery’ (1980) was based on a selection of Tom Lehrer’s
Also in the lists today we have the ultimate sideman Billy Bauer who changed recording studios recently. We hope he didn’t have to trade in his guitar for a harp as part of the deal. You will see that he released only a single album, but has a Who’s Who list of credits.
And of course you knew this: Thursday derives from Middle English influenced by Old Norse thÅrsdagr or Thor’s Day. Some parts of the country are experiencing Thor’s Day everyday lately - have you seen the thunderstorms the Rockies have tossed up this past week? Could this be related in any way to Annika being in Denver? And in case you were really, really worried about Thor’s Days in general remember that in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
